Boss Quotes

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.
Frank Miller

Life, Movies, Happy

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
Gavin Rossdale

Strange, Else, Write

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.
Carrie Brownstein

Good, Working, Turns

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.
Bob Schieffer

Decisions, Makes, Story

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
James Patrick Murray

Good, Loser, Show

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.
Simon Cowell

Future, Pain, Down

My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.
Anthony Horowitz

Work, Happy, Wife

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.
Juliana Hatfield

Success, Job, Living

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.
Judith Light

Character, Play, Loved

In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses.
NeNe Leakes

Life, Gay, Real

I like All Saints. They make great leathers. I love Hugo Boss, especially the suits. I like James Perse for T-shirts, and Supra and Radii for sneakers. And God Is in the Details.
Marlon Wayans

Love, Great, God

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
Bernard Ebbers

Company, Demanding

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
Evan Dando

Love, Hard, Around

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.
Kirk Douglas

Tell, Actor, Nobody

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.
Hugh Grant

Find, Whole, Quality

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Alfred Eisenstaedt

Important, Around, Click

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss.
Timothy F. Cahill

Work, Whether, Office

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
Cecilia Bartoli

She, Voice, Listen

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
Jimmy Kimmel

Funny, Authority, Flaw

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.
Jimmy Carl Black

Time, Decisions, Question

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
John Abizaid

Nothing, Here, Speak

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.
Elisabeth Rohm

After, Coming, Wolf

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.
Andrew Bernstein

Life, Husband, Wife

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.
Susana Martinez

Him, Down, Young

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
Gregg Easterbrook

President, View, Attacking

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
Hayao Miyazaki

Work, Team, Rather

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
David Eddings

Work, Christmas, Yourself

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
Buck Owens

Life, Work, Him

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.
Mark Cuban

Work, Vision, Sure

I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.
Hoda Kotb

After, Become, Talk

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